Qantas has confirmed its flight from Singapore to London has landed safely in Dubai after an engine was shut down. The flight QF31, operating on an Airbus A380 aircraft suffered "an engine oil defect", according to Qantas. The engine trouble comes exactly one year after a mid-air engine blast forced an emergency landing of a Qantas A380 jet in Singapore. The company said the flight had 258 passengers on board, with 4 pilots and 21 cabin crew. "We currently have engineers on the ground assessing that engine," a Qantas spokeswoman told the BBC. Last year's emergency landing had resulted in Qantas grounding its entire fleet of A380 jets for safety checks.
Granny says mebbe dey better come up with a sewage system first... Dubai makes bid to be City of Gold Jan 5,`13 -- Dubai is sometimes called the "City of Gold" because of its stunning growth from a sleepy Gulf port to a world-famous business crossroads in the space of a single generation. Its nickname has a literal meaning for traders in the precious metal. See also: The modern Arab world: You have seen those architectural wonders of Dubai. However, none are hooked up to a sewer system! The two minute video below passes a line of poop trucks and never gets to the end of the line. What were these people thinking? Unbelievable amount of sewage generated by the new high-rises & no place to dispose of it. Camel sense seems about right! Dubai doesn't have a sewage system for all those big new buildings so they haul it all away. Look at the number of tank trucks that are waiting to dump their load. This is amazing. They wait for days. You would have thought that by building all those huge skyscrapers they would have enough sense to put in a sufficient sewage system to haul away all that crap. Obviously, not everything you see above ground that looks amazingly beautiful isbuilt on a well-planned system of utilities. Click on this link: http://www.boreme.com/posting.php?id=31361